Answers to the Strategist quiz (#463)

1. Connect one of the original 12 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896 with Taylor Swift and what to you arrive at?
   
   The footwear brand Keds. It was first introduced in 1916 by US Rubber, one of the original 12 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896. In 2012, Keds announced a partnership with singer Taylor Swift that included product collaborations. Their slogan reads "Ladies first since 1916"
    
2. Whose humanoid robot has landed a job at Pizza Hut in Singapore?
   
   SoftBank's robot pepper
    
3. "Make haste slowly" is the motto of this business family. Its business was the most prosperous and most respected institutions that employed 40 people when it wound up way back in the late 1400s. Name both.
   
   The Medici family that started the Medici bank in Florence, Italy.
    
4. Name the actress who will teach a Master's course on "Women, Peace and Security" at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
   
   Angelina Jolie, who is currently the special envoy to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
    
5. A Twitter campaign led by American late-night talk show host on a retail chain's unwieldy receipts has led to the launch of digital receipts by this company in the US. It will roll it out selectively till it covers all its 7,000-plus stores. Name the talk show host and the retail brand.
   
   Jimmy Kimmel and CVS Health
    
6. A fervently free market economic philosophy is long associated with this institution. At times, especially when Keynesian economics was the orthodoxy in much of the world, this institution was regarded as a bastion of unworldly extremism. However, from the late 1970s it came to be regarded as mainstream by many. Twenty-eight winners of the Nobel Prize for economics have been faculty members, students or researchers there. Name it.
   
   The Chicago School - University of Chicago
    
7. One of the newspapers in the late '60s in the state of Texas mentioned the following in its columns: "Don't bother spending your money on a movie or going to see a play or attending a concert. Just come over and watch _____ and the lawyers for Braniff and Texas International cut each other into little bits and pieces." What is being referred to here?
   
   The series of lawsuits Southwest Airlines had to fight as one of the first low-fare airlines with its competitors. Herb Kelleher, its co-founder, was a trained lawyer
    
8. Which brand has launched a digital video campaign titled "don't be a sucker"?
   
   Canned juice maker Del Monte
    
9. Connect the German-born Hollywood actress Marlene Dietrich to a place that is considered to be London's third main central business district and what do you arrive at?
   
   The Croydon facelift was popularised by her. In English slang a Croydon facelift or in Northern Ireland a Millie facelift is a hairstyle worn by some women where the hair is pulled back tightly and tied in a bun or ponytail at the back. Croydon, now a business district in London, was once considered to be inhabited by lower class people
    
10. Name the brand from its logo and mention its claim to fame.
    
    
    AeroMobil, manufacturers of a roadable aircraft or flying cars. It's a Slovakian firm founded in the 1990 by Stefan Klein and Juraj Vaculik who conceived this dream of flying out of the nation during the Soviet-controlled Communist regime

 

There were 10 correct entries to quiz No 463. Ramesh Goyal from West Bengal wins Rs 2,000. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.